Guide to the University of Chicago Comparative Education Center Records
1959-1977

Descriptive Summary

Special Collections Research Center
University of Chicago Library
1100 East 57th Street
Chicago, Illinois 60637 U.S.A.

Abstract:

The Comparative Education Center was to create a cross-cultural foundation for the maturing branches of educational researhc. The records consist of the Center's Annual Reports from 1959-1977.

Information on Use

Access

The collection is open for research.

Citation

When quoting material from this collection the preferred citation is:

University of Chicago. Comparative Education Center. Records, [Box #, Folder #], Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library

Historical Note

A "Proposal for the establishment of a Center for Comparative Education at the University of Chicago" was drawn up in July 1956. The next year, the Ford Foundation gave a grant for the Center, which opened on July 1, 1958. The Center was interdisciplinary in its faculty and its scope. And its first director was C. Arnold Anderson, a professor of education and sociology. Other early faculty included Robert J. Havighurst (Education and Human Development), Herman G. Richey (Education), and Mary Jean Bowman (Economics). The early mission of the Center was to create a cross-cultural foundation for the maturing branches of educational research.

Scope Note

The Comparative Education Center Records consist of the Center's Annual Reports from 1959 to 1977.

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